Election 2020 - Party Policies - Drugs - Cannabis
25th Jul 20, 5:53am
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- Supports referendum on the legalisation of cannabis. Prohibition of cannabis has failed, but we need to be sure any particular approach to legalisation will improve the status quo. Our priority should be harm reduction, especially keeping cannabis out of the hands of children.
- Read more here.
- Make cannabis legal for personal use, including possession and cultivation.
- Remove penalties for any person with a terminal illness, or chronic or debilitating condition to cultivate, possess or use cannabis and/or cannabis products for therapeutic purposes, provided they have the support of a registered medical practitioner.
- Accelerate the process by which medical cannabis products are licensed for use by directing MedSafe to consider the establishment of category-based classes for common compositions of medical cannabis products.
- Encourage MedSafe to carry out extensive ongoing monitoring of any new and approved cannabis-based medicines.
- Lower barriers for manufacturers to submit new cannabis products for funding applications to PHARMAC so that evidence can be quickly gathered for the efficacy of particular cannabis-based medicine classes.
- Read more here and here.
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- Comfortable with the government’s proposals. TOP will be campaigning for a “yes” vote.
- Work to improve the proposed legislation. In our view, local areas should have greater say over how cannabis is legalised in their area. Some areas may want no sales, which is fine as long as there is an online option. Some areas may want a more liberal approach to cannabis legalisation, such as the existence of cannabis cafes. In our view, a degree of local variation is important and should be welcomed.
- Read more here.
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